TekLinks Buys Into Managed Healthcare IT Services

Managed services provider TekLinks this week moved into the healthcare arena with the acquisition of ClinicAnywhere, which offers practice management and billing solutions.

Under the terms, ClinicAnywhere will maintain some of its branding and be given a degree of independence.

The Birmingham, AL-based TekLinks offers managed services, cloud services and IT solutions in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and the Gulf South. Last summer, the company was acquired by Pamlico Capital and since then has been building partnerships aimed at equipping it to do battle in vertical markets.

ClinicAnywhere is entirely focused on automating doctor’s offices through managed services. With its new owner, and presumably some capital behind it, ClinicAnywhere hopes to broaden its managed and straight cloud offerings, which will be renamed TekLinks Healthcare Services Group.

Meanwhile, ClinicAnywhere will keep its CEO. “We have worked extremely hard over the past ten years to build a company that served the technology needs of the physician practice,” said Mike Jones, founder and CEO of ClinicAnywhere, who will continue to run the business. “Over the past year, we have built a successful software and medical billing company to work alongside our managed services business. We had reached the point where we needed to focus our business efforts further, and TekLinks, who has been a great partner to us in the past, was looking to grow its managed services portfolio. These two things occurring simultaneously really provided the classic ‘win-win’ scenario. TekLinks is able to acquire and maintain the managed services business, while we can concentrate on the rapid growth of our software business.”

TekLinks, which owns its own data center capacity, has a bevy of managed services, including:

• Hosted voice
• POP e-mail
• Hosted Exchange
• Antispam
• Online/offsite backup
• Managed network services
• Telecom services
• Security services
• Hosted desktops
• Data center services